The poverty rate of school-age children remains above pre-recession levels in nearly 30 percent of the nation’s 3,140 counties.
The rate rose in 928 counties from 2007 to 2013, as depicted in the map above, and fell in just 15 counties, according to newly released Census Bureau data. In the remaining counties, the poverty rate for school-age children showed no statistically significant change.
“County school-age child poverty rates are still above their pre-recession levels in metropolitan areas of California, Nevada, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, as well as the coastal areas of the Northeast and Great Lakes states,” Wesley Basel of the Census Bureau’s Small Area Estimates Branch, said in a Wednesday release. The poverty rate nationally for school-age children is 20.8 percent, or roughly 1 in 5.
[For more of this story, written by Niraj Choksi, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/...percent-of-counties/]
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